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The Spiritual body.

Boston Transcript.
Not long ago two small children, one of them
four and the other three years old, taken
to see the stuffed animals that Barnum has given
to Tufts College-Stuffed College these children
now call it, quite naturaliy-and the ele-
plants and giraffes. and other beautiful animals,
and had an idea given them of the difference be-
tween these figures and the real creatures. On
the Sunday after this visit the children were
favored with little lecture on the future life
and the spiritual body, and very intelligent
attempt was made to convey to them an under
standing of the idea.
Yes l know how il is said the elder of the
two. eagerly. They Just take US after we're
dead and take our skins off, and stuff 'em with
sawdust N things, m then we're spiritsl'
This is a conception of the future existence
which is recommended to the Psychical Society
possibly containing the germ of great dis
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account for examinations in which he did not
participate the fees amounting to $40, which he
refunded to the United States pension agent
after ne had learned that the Pension Bureau
had discovered the fraud. General Black has
expressed his determination to vigorously prose-
cute such
Indiana postmasters have been commits
stoned as follows: Manford n. Turley, at Kappa;
Campbell II. Kevitt. New Brunswick; Solomon
Il. Fnrr, Stevens: VIM. ii. Shellenbarger, Wis
tula: Francis G. Gladeux. Zulu.
Michael A. Mess of Indiana, twelve hundred
dollar clerK in the War Department, has been
transferred. under the civil-service rules to the
General Land Office.
AT the request of the executive committee of
the national drill, General Sheridan has detailed
Col S. Z. Blunt of his staff, to take charge of
the rife competition during the drill The COM
petition will be open to regularly enlisted
man commissioned officer of the volunteer
militia, the entries not to exceed two men from
any one company, under the army regulations.
Eight prizes will be offered, consisting of gold,
silver and bronze medals. About 100 entries
have already been received
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FIVE MONTHS ON A MULE.
A Hondurian Who Travelled $500 Miles
Through Central America.

Pittsburg Dispatch
DR.. Luciano Delon, of Juticalps, Honduras,
arrived in the city yesterday. The Doctor is
connected with the Hondurian government, and
has made several tours of exploration through
Central America. He is now preparing for an
other expedition, and he has come here to buy
materials which he thinks may be useful to him
scrption of the country he had passed through
on his last trip which he made in five months,
riding mule from LaEstapan, Honduras. to
Mexico. a distance of 2. 500 miles. He spoke of
the various tribes and interesting places he had
passed through. He had met the Mestizos, a
of half breeds who hate the white people to
such an extent that he could not buy of them
anything to eat for himself nor get any grass for
his mule while he was among them. The Doctor.
when arriving at Las Quebradas in Guatemala,
met of Brigham Young, the Mormon
prophet, and the young man was the owner of a
large gold and silver mine.
In the State of Chiapa he came across some of
the richest coffee plantations in the world.
Three hundred thousand pounds of coffee are
produced on l40 acres of land. realizing a profit
to the planter of $50 900 year. He had trav-
eled through the State of Oaxaca, a very mount
aiEous district, where the people live in con-
state of intoxication. Their country is bar
and sandy. Nothing grows there but plant
which belongs to the family of the cactus, out of
which they manufacture puique. The people,
who are called Topoteros and Mistecos, are, ac
cording to the countrys traditions, the direct de-
scendents of the old Aztecs, who had left archi-
tonish anybody.
II was in Mictla," the Doctor said, "where
the ruins of old temples that were truly
marvellous to behold. The whole structures are
made out of mosaics Stones about an inch
square are put together into enormous walls"
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AN HONEST MAN.
He Is Fodnd at Last, bat He Declines to Make
Himself Personally Known to the Public.

Special to tho INDIANAPOLIS Journal
NEW HAVEN, Conn. May 6.-The Register
to-Eight prints remarkable story OF financial
integrity which stands without parallel in the
commercial history of the country. The names
of the principals withheld but the eminent
respectabiity of counsel-Judge L. B. Morris
is sufficient guarantee of its truthfulness. The
Register says that at the beginning of the war a
wealthy Southern merchant, who had
but recently taken his ook-keeper
into partnership, fearing that his prop
erty would be condscated, decided to
come North. His establishment was valued at
100000, and he authorized his partner to do
he thought best, relying on his honor for set
Element. He has siGce resided il New Haven.
About six years ago, having heard nothing from
his partner in the meantime, ne placed the mat
ter in Judge Morriss hands. The keeper
after some INQUIRY, was located, and expressed
desire to return the full amount He made out
a statement showing that his Indebtedness
then amounted $685. 000 and asked for time
to make full restitution. Since then he has been
remittng different amounts until. last week.
the lasS cent was paid. The money could not
have been collected by process of law, and the
whole debt was simply one of honor. None of
the parties wish to have their names used, and
Judge Morris declines to give further details,
Init it is pretty well known that his client is
New Haven millionaire and the honest book
keeper is a wealthy Southern banker.
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MINOR MATTERS.

Belief that Political Mouse Is Concealed
Somewhere In the Pension Bureau.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, May Cit is stated at the Pen
sion Office, by clerks who have been there for
many years, that more pensions are being al
lowed at this time than at any period during the
past decade; that they being allowed by the
many hundreds each day. and that old cases
which we're disallowed several times being
reopened and the claimants receiving what
they want. Men who have watched the work at
the Pension Office and the dominant party at
the capital during the session of Congress say
there is something going politically in the pen
sion business The majority party is opposed
TO pensions being granted by Congress. and Bit
terly antagonizes all propositions looking toward
the enlargement of the pension lists. while at
the same time the Pension Office is bending
cry energy to allow many pensions it can.
The question arises, will pensions allowed at
the Office do the party in rower more good than
those allowed by Congressl Or is it a scheme of
the Commissioner of PensionsW
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THE WEATHER SERVICE.
Arrangements for Furnishing Information
for Benefit of Agriculturists.

Arrangements for Furnishing Information
for Benefit of Agriculturists.
Hpecial to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal
WASHINGTON, May 6.-Chief Signal Officer
Greedy, being convinced that the data collected
in his Office may be greatly untitled by farmers.
has decided to issue weekly special bulletin
containing reliable Information relative to the
climatic conditions which have existed the
previous week in the agricultural districts Of the
country. Beginning tomorrow, the reports
which collected daily by telegraph will
be charted and summarized at the close
of each week and the results given
to the press associations as items of news, in
time for publication in the Monday morning
papers These bulletins will designate agri-
cultural regions which the meteorological
conditions are favorable to crop productions; will
point out regions where the conditions observed
during the current week have alleviared spells
of drought and excessive heat, ameliorated
conditions of excessive moisture prolon ged
sold, and the limits of late damaging frosts.
The modifying effects of such neurological con-
ditions upon the season be readily con-
jectured by parties interested, especially as the
bulletin will state whether the season is tending
TO increase decrease the excuses deficien-
cies of temperature and rainfall. General
Greedy will be pleased to receive suggestions
from those interested in the bulletin. with a
view to improving the same, either to the
character of the information furnished, to
the form in which the reports presented.
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WEST VIRGINIA sENAToRsHIP.

Mr.. Lucas VIII Make "a Fight for "a seat-The
Issue Said To lie New One.
" ashineton Special
Mr. Lucas said. in an interview with corre-
spondent, recently, that the election of any other
man than Mr. Camden wonld not alter his pur-
pose to contest the seat He said: mo we'll
informed, intelligent person disputes my title TO
the seat under the appointment Of the Governor.
Should the present session elect another, my own
duty will be plain. AS the appointee of the
Governor, clothed with his commission or certif-
cate, which, by it's express terms, continues my
incumbency until the mex. meeting OF the Legis-
lature of said State having authority TO MI said
vacancy l will main tain my own title through
every vicissitude and contingency, because by
this course alone can uphold The Constitution
Of my own State and carry out the spirit ana In
tention of the trainers Of the Constitution or the
United States"
Senator Sherman was asked, this evening.
how the Senate would be likely to treat Mr..
Lucas's claim to sit in that body. "The point
Mr.. Lucas makes against the election OF SEN
ator at extra session." the Senator replied,
us rev one; that is, 1t has never been tried
before TO my recollection. There is no doubt
however, that the Constitution of West Virginia
clearly states that there shall be no business
transacted at special or extra session OF the
Legislature except the business they are called
upon to perform. The question, then. that the
Senate will have TO decide will De whether the
State has right TO restrict the Legislature In
the election of Senator. l know OF no other
State except West Virginia that has such
clause in Constitution. The Senate has
been called upon to decide a case or
this kind, and of course the matter will
receive careful and judicial attention If 1t comes
before us next winter. President Lincoln,
when he called Congress together In extra ses-
sion during the war, requested that no business
should be transacted except that of providing
Cor matters pertaining to the war. Congress
ADOPTED a resolution, in response MIR. Lin
coins suggestion, that no other question should
be taken up, but, of course. it is beyond the
power the President to confine Congress to
certain class of legislation at extra or regular
session. Congress do as it pleases under
the Constitution. There would be no politics in
D contest such as Mr.. Lucas suggests, as it would
be a choice between two Democrats, and l think
the would receive careful and judicial
study before any decision was made. l should
not care TO express any opinion in the matter in
advance of a judicial examination of the legal
points involved"
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Brief Mention.

Rev. A. B. Woolard, aged Methodist min
lister, died at Greenville on Thursday.
On Thursday night Rev. ". Fl. Illsley was in
stalled as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Macon The sermon was preached by Rev. W.
II. Prestly, of Decatur. Rev. E. s. McMichael.
of Springfield. gave the charge to the pastor, and
Rev Mr. Nor ton. of Jacksonville, delivered the
charge to the church.
DR.. VIM T. Macln, assisted by Dr. F. P.
Reagin. both prominent physicians of Duquoin,
performed an interesting and successful opera
ton in orthopaedic surgery upon the feet of the
niney ear-old daughter of Mr.. Frank Sheehan,
of that city. The young girl had six on
each foot. two of which were great big toes,
growing from the same joint. They ao-
normally large. The inner ones turned from
line with the foot at angle OF 45o. The re-
naming toes, with but two exceptions, were
grown together Two of the great toes were am
putated and the others were separated The
case is said to be without parallel in that Sec
ton of the State
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Special to the Indianapo lis Journal.

Special to the 1ndianapclis Journal.
PARAMOUNT, May 6.-The large warehouse be-
longing to Henley 81 Nixon. together with sew
eral hundred bushels of wheat. corn and flax
seed was burned to the ground here this morn
ing at o'clock. The building was erected in
1875. The total loss is estimated at near So OO0
Insurance. Royal. 81, 500; Philadelphia Fire In
surance Company, $500; North American
81. 600.
BALTIMORE, May THE fertilizer works of
NJ Dorsey. at Highlandtowr were destroyed by
fire shortly before o'clock this morning Loss
800, 900; insurance. $50, 900.
FREEPoRr. May 6.-At Warren, 10 Daviess
county. a disastrous fire occurred this morning
The postoffice building destroyed. as were
also the business houses of l.. E. Morris. Rohr &
Evans VIM. Spofford and VIM. P. Phillips The
loss is between SIS, 900 and $20, 900. The insur-
ance is estimated at So, 500. The mail matter in
the postoffice saved
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Run Down by n Train.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE Nav 6.-The north bound Louis
vile & Nashville passenger train. to-day, killed
a stranger and fatally wounded John Wilson,
the Henderson bridge Waterman. The stranger
attempted to cross the bridge on foot, and
Wilson. knowing the train due FASTENED
after him velocipede hand-car. to bring
him back before he was caught by the locomo-
tive. They did not get back in time, and were
run down by the train. Just after getting over
the river the hand-car was demolished, and the
men were thrown to the ground, about thirty
feet below. Wilson is here in the hospital
The dead man has not been identified.
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RUSSIAN GIRL STUDENTS.
Their Life in Paris-How They Study and
Where They Live.

Inelr Lie ParfS-dOW Iney Stuuy anu
Where They Live.
Paris Letter in London Truth.
The attempt on the Gar brings the Nihilists
again to the FORE and will have the effect of ex-
posing the Russian lady students here to much
nagging police espionage. One rarely sees them
unless in the Quarter Latin, although came
across nest of them a short time ago in a hotel
in the Cours de la Refine Quakers
could not have been more plainly dressed.
and most of them had their hair
cropped. They were good musicians. and
and all hardened smokers Russian girls take
to the fragrant weed like Kalmucks. am not
sure that their air of quiet. settled sadness is
due to smpecuniousness. A studentess told me
that the only CHEEKY ones among them
Jewesses and that they not very wealthy;
but they meet with moral. and, indeed often
material support from persons of their race
settled in Paris. l also learned from her
that not few of her companions are girls of
influential families and that they have broken
away from home and come here under
sumed names to study. The difficulties with
which some of them had to contend in making
their way here would strike you, were to relate
them. belonging the domain of romance.
What do you think of the daughter of the gov
ernor of province. who sent south by her
family TO be out of the way of restless spirits
with whom she came into symnathetic contact
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KINGSTON n. NJ. May 6-David Burke,
well known citizen, was killed by miner named
Con Ryan. to-day. The men had been drinking
quite freely. and quarreled over trivial mat
ter Burke challenged Ryan to fight with pis-
tolls, and Ryan replied that he unarmed.
Burke offered to furnish him with a weapon if
proposition agreed to. and both went to
Burke's house, whore Ryan given re-
Three shots were rapidly fired, and Burke fell
corpse. Ryan fred but shot, and it is be-
ieyed that two were fired by Burke whose head
pierced by the third and only shot fired by
Ryan. Ryan surrendered and was held in "a. 900
Q the grand jury.
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The Strike In the Coke Region.

PITTsBURG, May 6-Teleerams from the coke
region state that Lauehlin & Co.. Stewart Iron
Company, Hoggsett & Co.. PERCY Mining Com
pany and Everson & Co.. have granted demands
of the strikers and resumed operations. At
several works drawers have been offered 10 per
cent. advance for drawing the coke now in the
ovens. but they have refused. Despite the as
hand, the furnaces preparing to close down.
Orders have been given to blow out furnace E,
at the Edgar Thomson steel works. Captain
Jones' manager of the works, says that others
will be closed down. He predicts that four
weeks of a coke strike will shut down every
steel-mill in the country.
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ILLINOIS.

A Big Shortage IN the Funds of the Will
County National Bank, at Joliet
JOLIET. May 6.-Seventy- five to one hundred
thousand dollars of the funds of the Will County
National Bank are missing. The officials of the
concern admit that there is big shortage but
saw it was caused by Cashier Knowlton's bad
financial management and his peculiar methods
of handling the funds of the old Will County
Savings Bank The latter private
Germ, but Knowlton was manager of it as we'll as
cashier of the National. and both banks were,
until recently, in the same building. The cash
Ter has resigned and is now in Canada with his
wife but Can't. G. p. Phelps, brother of the
American minister to England, who is his coun-
sci, denies that he is defaulter, and has made
arrangements to make good the shortage. An
investigation is now in progress.
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Boston, May Oscar B. Farnham aged ff-
ty years, a member of the firm of Holt, Adams
& Co., made desp crate attempt at suicide in a
room in the United States Hotel this morning.
After swallowing dose of Trough on Rats" he
hung himself with necktie to gas fixture and
turned the gas He became conscious, and
his weight broke the gas fixture. The smell of
the escaping gas attracted the attention of the
Waterman, who broke open the door. Farnham
was taken to the hospital, where it was said that
he would die. 1t is stated by the firm that
Farnham is embezzler to the extent of about
50, coo. Yesterday he pressed for explana-
them.
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Kentucky's Inconsistent Democracy.
III u DO. Ind Ia Ia

Bpec1aI TO the InuIdnhDoIIs
WASHINGTON, May Standardization Demo
Gratis. with Republicans, are laughing at the in
consistent action of the Kentucky Democrats in
convention, on Wednesday. A few days ago the
men who Endorsed the administration in Ken
lucky announced that the State favored Mr.. Car
Isle for the presidency in 1892, and that he
would then be the Offices for the party
policy. On Wednesday they Endorsed the Presi-
dent and all of his administration excepting
civil-service reform Kentuckians in Washing
ton say the party in their State did not commit
itself to the President, except being the
strongest man before the country, which makes
the Endorsement aud announcement regarding
Mr.. Carlisle five years hence all the more incon-
ri
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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
Strong Feeling at Adamsborough, Grow
inc Out of Losers Infamous Crime.
A LaPorte County Forger Flees to Europe
Decapitated by a Freight Train-Big
Shortage in an Illinois Bank-Notes.
INDIANA.
Loser and His Friend Compelled tn Flee in
Order tn Escane Puhlic Wrath.

Loser and His Friend Compelled tn Flee in
Order to Escape Public Wrath.
Special to the Indianapolis journal
LoGANsPoRT, May 6.-The feeling against
Emanuel Loser, the assailant of the ten-year-
old child of George Bush, has reached fever heat.
Since Bush committed suicide the indignant cit
liens of dansborough have shown an inclina-
ton to hold Loser responsible for his death.
Last night they held a meeting, and the
lynching of Loser only prevented by mis-
flight to this city Vim. Moore, the author of
the article in the Daily Pharos, of this city,
charging Bush with working black mailing
scheme in the prosecution of Loser, has also
been driven from the village and is hiding in this
ri
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A Valuable Invention.

MEANWHILE. Pa, May 6.-Dr C. G. Carroll,
of this city. after years OF experimenting has
discovered method by which aluminium can
be cast. soldered and welded. 1t is claimed by
metaliurgists and artisans that this is very
valuable invention. since it insures the use of
aluminium for many purposes account of its
extreme lightness, strength and oxidation
by exposure. 1t is already successfully EN-
ployed in the manufacture of dental plates for
which il is apparently admirably adapted. In
the course of his experimenting. DR.. Carroll be-
lieves he has also discovered the law governing
the disintegration of iron stringers employed
in construction of railroad bridges.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WAsRINGToS, May 6.-Todays New York
World says: Judge John A. Holman arrived
aere yesterday morning and registered at the
Murray Hill Hotel He is a relative of the
great objector, Congressman Holman, and was
elected judge when but twenty eight years of
age. He is quite prominent in Indianapolis.
and is spoken OF possible future candidate
of the Democracy for Governor.
1t has recently come TO the knowledge of the
Commissioner OF Pensions that in some instances
members of boercs of examining surgeons have
presented false accounts. A recent is that
Of q certain member of board who rendered his
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An Ohio Editors Feet.

Adams County (U.J Hefender.
Statesman West. in his organ last week, tack
led our feet. Now, we are not particularly vain
of our pedalistic foundation, nor, in fact. any
other part of our body; but this we'll agree to
do: We will put feet exhibition with
those of Wet-nurse Joe and his fair exponent,
and allow the gate receipts of the circus TO go
toward purchasing store-box upon which Joe
and his brother buzzards rest their weary
launches while discussing the problems Of state
daring the summer months.
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The Garfield Statue.

WASHINGTON. May 6.-Employes in the exec
utive departments who are members of the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland will be ex-
cused from attendance on Wednesday and Thurs
day next, to take part in the ceremonies and
business meetings Of the society All the de-
partments will be closed at noon on Thursday,
to enable the employees to witness the ceremonies
attending the unveiling of the statue of General
Garfield. James and Harry Garfield will be
present as representatives of the family, as Mrs
Garfield's health will not permit her to attend